Bankrupt former Delta Petroleum CEO Roger Parker, still under the cloud of a federal securities lawsuit alleging illegal insider trading at the company, lashed out against billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian’s Tracinda Corp as the reason for Delta’s demise.

In a filing in his personal bankruptcy case in Denver, Parker said it was Tracinda that wrecked the company he founded, not him, as Tracinda alleges in a separate lawsuit. Parker lays the blame at the feet of Kerkorian soldier Dan Taylor, who had been on Delta’s board and then took the reins in 2009 when Parker resigned.

“It took 16 years for Parker and his team to lead Delta from a small cap stock to a successful company with a valuation in excess of $1 billion,” Parker says in a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. “It took Dan Taylor and Tracinda two and one-half years to plunge Delta into bankruptcy.”

The case has lately turned into a mud-slinging-fest that, despite the legal verbiage necessary of court documents, reads like a soap opera scandal.

Emilie Rusch covers retail and commercial real estate for The Post. A Wisconsin native and Mizzou graduate, she moved to Colorado in 2012. Before that, she worked at a small daily newspaper in South Dakota. It's the one with Mount Rushmore.